Wow! Dodge Daytona sold on Mecum

[dspur]

69 Dodge Daytona just sold on Mecum in Monterey for $3,000,000. Bidding war, reserve came off at 1.8. Crazy numbers.

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[mmissile]

LOL

 

[Don Frelier]

Crap.

Only 2.98 million out of my price range.

 

[DeltaV]

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[DeltaV]

 

[chargervert]

Sure am glad I am building my clone,real ones are way out of the reach of the average enthuiests!

 

[Dave6T4]

Great! All our Muscle cars just went up in value! Yay! A mere $100,000 will take my '67 R/T. LOL.

 

[dspur]

Another 69 Daytona, unrestored with 440, original paint, complete with old stickers, decals, and dents, sold for $240,000

 

[DeltaV]

Another 69 Daytona, unrestored with 440, original paint, complete with old stickers, decals, and dents, sold for $240,000

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[Detective D]

Mecum you say? Well they never do anything like buy their own vehicles back to artificially inflate market price. Nope, not once.
I wonder when they will put that $45,000 Cordoba back on the block again.......

 

[gtx6970]

Nice investment

1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona for Sale at Auction - Mecum Auctions

1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona for Sale at Auction - Mecum Auctions

 

[#41]

Another 69 Daytona, unrestored with 440, original paint, complete with old stickers, decals, and dents, sold for $240,000

Wow... that was a local car. Unbelievable $.

 

[The Rebel]

Another 69 Daytona, unrestored with 440, original paint, complete with old stickers, decals, and dents, sold for $240,000

l liked this one better than the green one. Had more character and was more affordable to those looking for a good deal.

 

[DeltaV]

Sure am glad I am building my clone,real ones are way out of the reach of the average enthuiests!

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And a sunroof car at that!!!

 

[chargervert]

And a sunroof car at that!!!

Factory sunroof is already installed.

 

[Runcharger]

Hemi 4 speed Daytona was one of my 2 bucket list cars when I was younger. If I had millions I would buy one before a Classic Ferrari or anything else so I agree with the value on it.
Was this the Daytona that got it's nose knocked off when new in Alberta by chance?

 

[chargervert]

Who would even drive a Daytona they paid 3.3 million dollars for? I am going to build the clone,the car is a real plum crazy purple Charger R/T car. I am going to drive the hell out of that car! The green car is a mueseum piece at this point!

 

[Runcharger]

Actually, it's one of those deals that if you love cars and can afford to pay the 3.3 you can afford to drive it without worry I think. If you love money more than cars then you don't drive it.
Especially a car that's been restored, if it's been painted once then it would be no big deal to fix a dent and paint a fender again. "Survivors" would be different of course, that's why I wouldn't own one.

 

[chargervert]

The car was probably a blast to drive back in it's 1975 configuration! ust another old Dodge!

 

[68BabyBlue]

Actually, it's one of those deals that if you love cars and can afford to pay the 3.3 you can afford to drive it without worry I think. If you love money more than cars then you don't drive it.
Especially a car that's been restored, if it's been painted once then it would be no big deal to fix a dent and paint a fender again. "Survivors" would be different of course, that's why I wouldn't own one.

Not in the league of that Daytona, but the '69 GTX I spent 52 years trying to buy has been restored to a pretty high level, and I drive it to Carlisle every year, it's never been trailered. It's the last one I'm ever going to own, and I've been fortunate to reach a place where it's okay for the car to lose value. If I reach the point I can't drive it, it will be gone.